This App Lets You See Which Apps Your Friends Use Most Often

Everyone organizes their smartphone homescreens a little
differently, giving their favorite apps prime real estate and
tucking others away in folders or hiding them on other pages.

It's interesting to see the apps people value the most, and
that's the idea behind a new app simply called "Homescreen."

Homescreen is the newest app from Betaworks, the company behind
Digg, Instapaper, and Dots.

The concept of Homescreen is simple: Share your homescreen on
Twitter, and check out the homescreens of others.

When you click on someone's homescreen via the link they share on
Twitter, you're brought to the Homescreen website, which gives
you more details on the specific apps on someone's homescreen
thanks to the app's built-in image recognition software,
according to TechCrunch.

If you don't recognize an app, you can hover over it and get a
tidy summary of what it does.

Homescreen's true potential, however, is its ability to act as a
recommendation engine.

Apps are already best shared through word of mouth. Personally,
if a friend is excited about an app to the extent they'll
actually take out their phone and show me, I'm a lot more likely
to give it a try knowing that one of my friends is already using
it.

Homescreen could harness this idea, giving users the chance to
show their friends which apps have survived since they last
needed to free up space. Not too many people
know about Humin, for example, but when I show them it's
replaced the Phone app on my dock; that endorsement holds far
more weight than a simple tweet.